On the day Life Depicted aired its first episode, the viewing rate was around 5%.

With Yoon Seong-Hwan, Park Mi-Hyun, and Chae Woo-Jin’s appearance on the show, the rating was unimaginably high for broadcast television but only somewhat decent for cable television.

In the first place, the show’s concept itself made it difficult to get higher viewing rates. This had been pointed out by many people even before the episode aired. In addition, the trailer made the show seem like a documentary, causing the viewers to have lower expectations and reducing the hype. People even joked that the channel was purposefully destroying their audiences’ expectations as a marketing strategy to impress them later on.

Nevertheless, the show had garnered a lot of attention since the celebrities set to appear on it were rarely seen on the small screen. In reality, the rating was so low for the first episode because people were waiting for online reviews. If the show received a good evaluation, they planned on watching it as well.

The first episode started off with the cast members attending their first planning meetings after getting selected for the show. Unfortunately, there were no opportunities for the three cast members to get together for the meeting, so each of them had met the director and production crew on different days and discussed the show.

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